Item: Infor Birst
Rating: 9
Author: David Pearlman

Overall Satisfaction with Birst

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Birst is mainly used across the Global Sales organization to provide sales reporting. Additional benefactors of the reporting are finance, product, customer service organization and other team members. The initial use case was to provide "snapshot" reporting so we could compare pipeline performance vs the same period prior year. We have been able to create new use cases based on the business needs and have built dashboards to help answer Sales Management's qs

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ease of use.. you can bring it multiple sources of data and display in a dashboard
Columnar database is efficient
Dashboards have improved from a GUI nature

Cons

I think they can improve the GUI dashlets, but that's not a game changer

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Server

We compared Birst vs Tableau and Lumirra and there's no question that Birst is the best option from a cost perspective. Additionally, the ease of use complemented with our support team has allowed us to innovate on the platform quickly

Likelihood to Recommend

Birst is well suited for companies looking to automate pipeline /activity reporting especially for companies that don't have complicated backend systems. We have a "ninja" at D&B who's well versed within Birst which helps a ton. Development is performed by him / his team and we QA and develop new use cases.

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